why is redalert so bugged tht you cant play the game

Hi, @mrvampear

There are some unofficial patches that could help you out. @Nyerguds is the forum's specialist regarding C&C games. He is able to point you out into the right direction.

@mrvampear

You might want to start by mentioning the correct game; "Red Alert" isn't the same game as "Red Alert 2" (in fact they're about 4 years apart in release date), and the issue you're having doesn't occur in Red Alert 1.

Also, if you'd have gone to the Command & Conquer section and looked around a bit, you would most likely already have found the solution to this issue.

Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. For Red Alert 2 there's a more general patch that solves a lot of its graphics problems, including this "black screen" one. You can find them all here:

Command & Conquer 1:

• Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game)

Red Alert 1:

• Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game)
• Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.)

Tiberian Sun:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

• The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a multitude of graphics problems, including the "black screen" issue.
  Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and try running the game again.
• If you still have problems with RA2 even after this, I advise installing the CnCNet installer for RA2/YR. It comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers more choices in graphics fixes than just DDWrapper, so if one doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

i havr the gold one with booth 1 and 2

@mrvampear

Um, what? Even if you have both games, that doesn't mean you can generalize your problem; they're still two separate games...

its the one for gold members that combined 1 and 2 I don't know the name of them it just says redalert  and when I click on the link it asks me if I want to play 1 or two two being yui's revenge or some thing like that.  before it was crashing after you start playing a couple of seconds I would have to uninstall the game and reinstall it but after the update it would be messed up again now it wount even launch right there's no graphics at all just a black screen but I can hear the music of the game playing in the back ground I tried clicking around on the screen but nothing happens.

no it was a promotional thing through origins they bundled them together when you click on the game icon it pop's up a screen so you can choose to play 1 or 2

@mrvampear

You really need to read those descriptions more closely. That's not Red Alert 1 and Red Alert 2. That's Red Alert 2 and its expansion pack, Yuri's Revenge.

And my first reply tells you exactly how to fix the Red Alert 2 issue. So just do what I described there.

If you don't know how to find your game folder, follow the steps in this image.